May 29, 1908
[Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the United States Statutes at Large, Volume 35, Part 1, which contains the public laws passed by the Sixtieth Congress during its first session in 1908. The following text is from Chapter 216 (35 Stat. 445).]
Sec. 3. That the heirs of Cornplanter, a Seneca Indian chief, as ascertained by the orphan's court of Warren County, Pennsylvania, under act of the legislature of the State of Pennsylvania of May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and their descendants are hereby authorized and empowered to bring suit for the recovery of the possession or the quieting of title of any lands granted individually to said Cornplanter, alias John O'Bial or Abeel, in the circuit court of the United States for the district in which such lands are situated, and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said courts, both in law and in equity, to hear and determine the rights of said Cornplanter under any grant made to him. Any petition filed or other court papers may be verified by the attorneys representing said heirs or their duly authorized attorneys in fact.
Sec. 4. That a lease bearing date September nineteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, between the Seneca Nation of Indians on the Cattaraugus and Alleghany reservations, in the State of New York, and Charles M. L. Ashby, of Erie County, New York, is hereby ratified and confirmed.
Approved, May 29, 1908.